Big Island Memory Making: Design a Multi-Generational Trip You'll Never Forget

Dreaming of a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii with you and your extended family? The Big Island is a magical place.The challenge is you'll spend months planning it and thousands of dollars on the trip. It's hard to plan a trip for multiple families across multiple generations. Finding a place to stay under one roof but with enough individual space so you don't go crazy is hard. Figuring out how to feed a group of 10 plus people without worrying about reservations is exhausting.If you're going to invest a lot of time and money, you want to make sure this trip is one everyone will remember fondly.Memories have a half life. After a year, your memories start to fade. The longer you go without revisiting an experience, the less of it survives. Unless you memorialize them.Eddie and Kristen have been to the Big Island several dozen times with their young family, both sets of grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. They started a Substack, Big Island Memory Making, to make it easy to share their insights and watch outs with others. And they've memorialized their many trips into photo books, videos, blankets and many other ways that has helped make the trips endure.They call this Memory Design, which is the practice of designing capturing ethereal experiences into permanent things that endure, warm your heart and remind you of why you love your loved ones.Big Island Memory Making is a guide to designing a multi-generational trip to Hawai'i's Big Island your family will actually remember.This isn't another guidebook listing the same twenty beaches every other guide already named. It's a field manual to help you make the small, deliberate choices that turn an ordinary trip into the one your kids tell their kids about.Inside you'll find tips to:Designing Your TripSimplifying Your TripEnjoying the LandEnjoying the OceanTasting Your TripTreasuring Your TripInvesting in Your TripAI tips after each section to help you use Claude, ChatGPT or Eddie & Kristen's Big Island Bot AIReaders also unlock a few exclusive bonuses tucked inside the book. This includes complimentary access to their Substack as well as an offer for first-time renters staying a week or longer to save up to $1,000 Read more